Improvement in corn-harvesters



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held by clamps a a beneath the wagon. The

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' crotch of the slot b, vertical EDMUNDW. Quincy, or PEORIA, rnmnorsnssienon or ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN H. HALL, or SAME PLACE."

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,305, dated J une 24, 1873; application filed March 22,1813.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND W. QUINCY, of

p the city of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and in the State of II linois, have invented an Im provemcnt in Machines for Picking or Gathering Corn, Husking and Haeklingthe Husk and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings niakinga part of this specification, in which like'letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the machine as attached to a common wagon, showingasection (vertical) of the bushing andhacklingbox and rollers; Fig. 2, a plan, with the edge of the platform broken ofl toshow gear ing of driving-shaft with the pinions of the chain-pulleys Fig. 3, rear elevation of outer half of pulley-gearin g or driving mechanism;

Fig. 4, vertical section through the roller-box p and longitudinally through the holes 11 d in the platform B.

This invention consists'in a peculiar construction and combination of devices, as hereinafter described and pointed out-in the claims; A in the drawings represents the wagon; B, the platform, which is attached, in an inclined position, to the wagon by a brace, C, passing across the wagon sides, and supporting the The brace is firmly platform may be about nine feet along, divided centrallv and longitudinally by a slot or slit, b,

about one and a half inch wide, running about two-thirds up it.

The divided ends ternear the soil, in flexible points one, for their passage under prostrate or leaning stalks. N ear the upper end of the platform are holes d d to receive severed corn-ears, and, at the V knives. D .D are two logse pulleys, setflat upon the platform, one upon each of-the lower points of the divisions periphery next to the edge of the chain,

of the same. These have each a flange on the platform to carry the and are each pivoted upon a movable or adjustable axle, whose shank 0 ends in a slot to receive an adjusting bolt 01'' screw, which connects each with the platform.

f There are placed nearthesepulleys, just at the expansion ofthe slit b, two anti-friction rollers,

f f, set vertically on the platform, to obtain driving-shaft K. The latter has journals at ei ther end, attached to lower'side of platform,

and is rotated by a pulley, 2', on the end next to 't-he'wagon, and a bandrunning to an endless-chain wheel, J, on the face of the rear wheel of the wagon. F F are two endless chains, each passing around one of the pairs of pulleys D E, and along one side of the slot. They are composed of metal links k, which are here and there extended into vertieal'knivesl, which may be'otherwise made removable to sharpen them; and between them short horizontal arms, lugs, or pushers m, formed by extending a link -which projects over the edge, of the trough Gtovpush upward the severed corn ears. I

These chains may be constructed of links of various fashions of rubber bands, wire ropes,

ropes, or any similar detachable knives, or similar devices, the stalks.

Between the chains, at the head of the slot I), are placed erect knives o 0, as auxiliaries, to the knives, 850., upon the chains. G Gare shallow troughs attached to the platform, one being between each chain, and extending from. near the lower pulleys D 10 up to the corn-receiving holes at 01, into. which they open. H H are two parallel rubber or other soft rollers, or rollers with very fine teeth, extending across the inferior side of the platform beneath the holes (1 d. They are inelosed in a box, and geared, at the ends,by pinicns c w, to turn toward each other to catch the husk from the ears. One of said pinions is rotated by a pinion on the hackl ing;roller Ibeneatb. The-box hands, with attached or for taking off the cars from opens at one side into a spout, g, which dropsthe husked cars into the wagon A. I is a roll er, provided with tearing or cutting teeth, as

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E E are two pulleysbn short pulleys each carry a pinion, h, which engages with another pinion, g, on the lugs, pnshers, or knockers,-

the chain pulleys E E.- vA slit or slot, u, in

the rear of the box 1), allows the ejection of the hackled husks into anattached bag or other convenience. Along the bottom of the box 1) is set a line of upright teeth to act with the roller-teeth in'slittin'g the husks'.'

These or similarteethmaybearrangedthroughout the curved surface of the box next to this 'roller. .The operation ofthis machine is as follows: The wagon A (any common wagon) to which the machine is attached isdrawn in the direction which brings the lower points of the platform B on either side of a row of cornstalks, (standing, or bent, or prostrate,) which latter, passing into the slot 1), the corn earsare caught, and severed or taken oh by the knives lor pushers m on the chains F F, runningupward on either side of the slot. The ears, fallin g into the troughs G G on either side, are pushed up the same by the pushers into the holes at d, where they fall upon the rollers H H, which, re volvin g toward one another, tear oil the husk, while the ears pass along the rollers into the 'spout'q, and are dropped into thewagon. The hns-ks, passing between the rollers H H, are caught, as fast as they protrude, by the teeth or knives of the contiguoushackling-roller I at the bottom of the box 10, whence they are expelled, through a horizontal slit or openin gin the back of the latter, into a proper receptacle, as a bag or similar device, to beremoved as fast as filled.

At the crotch or head of the slot b, between the divisions of the platform B B, is stationed a vertical knife, 0, orknives o o, in aline with each chain, to act with the latter in severing such ears as maypos'sibly have escaped gatherihg by the single kni es or the pushers.\

The whole is driven by an endlcss'chain wheel attached to the face-of the rear wheel of,a 00111;, mon wagon, a chain or band passing thence over the pulley tat the end of theuppermost shaft; K, which, by its oneor more pinions, g g,

moves the chains simultaneously with the husking or hacklin g rollers, the last by means of a-band from apulley, t, on the outer end'of this shaft running to the pulley s at the'end of the hacklingroller I. Y What'I claim as my invention-isj 1. The combination of endless chains F F, bushing-rollers H H, and toothed cylinder or roller I, substantially as and for the purpose set forth;

2. The combinationot' the inclined-platform B, provided with the endless chains FF, with the body of awagon by means of the bar or brace G and clamps a, substantially as set forth; 3. The combination of the troughs G G with inclined platform B and endless chains F Fhaving 'pushers m, substantially as set forth.

- 4. The combination of the fixed vertical knives 0 o with the platform B and the endless chains F F, substantially as set. forth.

5. The inclined platform B, carrying the endless chainsF F, having knives, knockers, or. pushers, and provided with slot b, troughs G G, fixed knives o 0, slots or holes d d, huskingrollers H H, toothed cylinder I, and spoutq, in combination with a brace, G, and clampfor attaching the whole to the body of a wagon, substantially as set forth. 7 i I];

In testimony ,that I claim the foregoing corn-picking, husking, and hackling machine 1 have'hereunto setmy hand this 15th day pf March, A. D. 1873. EDMUND W. QUINCY. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WELLS, 4 JAMES THURLOW. 

